Today is the Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: do you ever find some fragment of melody..?

Yup, though if you're a body who is more reading / playing through the music it tends to 'stick' more with the attached info, or 'printed' info if you will.

When I was younger and knew next to no Schubert and would walk in on or not catch the announcement on the classical FM station, I would often guess 'Mozart' for Schubert - he is that lyric, sometimes that classical.

The Germans have a Perfect Word for exactly that musical dilemma you describe!

Orhwurm:

http://andrewhammel.typepad.com/german_joys/2005/0...

Literally, 'ear-worm.'

And Happy Birthday Mozart to all celebrating. Though I'm pretty sure Mozart would have liked better to have lived to, say, age sixty in good health than be remembered hundreds of years later, I'm pretty damn happy he was born and lived and wrote what he did!

Best regards.

A happy birthday also to composers Arriaga, Lalo and Jerome Kern.

It happens to me periodically; especially as I get older and my once lightning-sharp recall fails me from time to time. I too misattribute pieces of music that get stuck in my heads - which can send me off on an annoying wild-goose chase in my attempts to identify it. This can happen with late Mozart/late Haydn/early Beethoven and the occasional Schubert.

I'm not much one for remembrance of nor celebrating birthdays - though I can recall the year of my favorite composer Richard Wagner's birth, not the day.

And come to think of it, I can't remember any posting on 'Answers' regarding it: Mozart, always/ Beethoven, nearly always/ Chopin and Liszt, usually/ Bach, every year too I would speculate: but Brahms, Verdi, Puccini, Stravinsky, Ravel, Mahler, etc., etc., am unable to recollect celebrations of their birthdays on here. Wonder why?

Ear-worms: I experience these occasionally, they seem to come out of nowhere; but rarely have a problem with identification.

Nice question, thanks,

Alberich

Wow. looks like i need to brush up on my Composers Lives...

Happy Birthday Mozart.

It's his birthday? How could I forget? D:

Yes, that happens to me often. It took me months to figure out the song I had in my head was Piano Concerto No. 21 (Andante)

Marcia Davenport's biography of Mozart is immensely sympathetic and readable. She came from a solid background of serious classical music, and did extensive research in Europe for the book. It launched her literary career.

Yes it happened. It was the sonata "Turkish march".